Wednesday, October 01, 2014

Today has been World Urticaria Day. There's a lot of world days, weeks and months out there - but this one is welcome. It used to be called "hives", which makes it sound like something that people were familiar with. Now people don't talk about it very much - so it needed a bit of publicity.

My worst experience was when I suffered the kind that you get from fleas. But if you're anything like me you won't have great skin.

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When I started getting acute allergic reactions, mainly to Italian food, I thought it must be wheat. Then tomato became a problem and the list of problem foods grew. Eventually a doctor diagnosed salicylate allergy, an extreme form of aspirin allergy, for salicylate is found in most fruit and vegetables and many other foods. This is the story of a rare(ish) food allergy.

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